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| 12:1 |
Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.
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| 12:2 |
You know that when you were pagans, [you were] led astray to the dumb idols, however you were led.
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| 12:3 |
Therefore I make known to you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
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| 12:4 |
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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| 12:5 |
And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
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| 12:6 |
And there are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all [persons].
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| 12:7 |
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
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| 12:8 |
For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
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| 12:9 |
to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
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| 12:10 |
and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another [various] kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
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| 12:11 |
But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
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| 12:12 |
For even as the body is one and [yet] has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
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| 12:13 |
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
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| 12:14 |
For the body is not one member, but many.
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| 12:15 |
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not [a part] of the body," it is not for this reason any the less [a part] of the body.
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| 12:16 |
And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not [a part] of the body," it is not for this reason any the less [a part] of the body.
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| 12:17 |
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
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| 12:18 |
But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
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| 12:19 |
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
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| 12:20 |
But now there are many members, but one body.
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| 12:21 |
And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
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| 12:22 |
On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
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| 12:23 |
and those [members] of the body, which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our unseemly [members come to] have more abundant seemliness,
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| 12:24 |
whereas our seemly [members] have no need [of it]. But God has [so] composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that [member] which lacked,
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| 12:25 |
that there should be no division in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care for one another.
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| 12:26 |
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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| 12:27 |
Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.
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| 12:28 |
And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, [various] kinds of tongues.
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| 12:29 |
All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not [workers of] miracles, are they?
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| 12:30 |
All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?
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| 12:31 |
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
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